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PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY PATRIOT
GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1918. VOL. 97-NO. 72
| REPORTS
fig BATTLEFIELDS
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armies
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. on various sectors of
. French
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'' nMn the violence of the op-
"*'" n.u Marshal Haig'a forces
SATURDAY'S SUMMARY
OF IMPORTANT WAR NEWS
NEW DRIVES ALL ALONG WEST
BATTLEFEIDS—GAINS ARE
MADE DAILY.
Toe process of closing in toward
the Hindenburg line at the points
where it had not yet been reached
was continued rapidly Saturday by
both the French and the British. The
British moved forward at on accele-rated
pace below the Cambrai-Pe-ronne
front and on that front itself
they already are close to the line..
FRANCO-AMERICANS
DRIlflNUlEMY OUT
REPORTS FRIDAY SAY THAT RE-TIREMENT
FROM PICARDY IS
ALMOST A ROUT.
encroached upon j South of the Somme the French
' h ■Tand St- Quentln, while far- | pressed on beyond Tergnier and
oitili the French armies are moved up speedily along all the line
rj£ eastward on the old Ncron ! opposite the front between La Fere
\ 't",-,1 La Fere and Laon and and S:- Quentin.
* Aj fi m Soiseons in an aux- [ Germans OMig Dp Ground In East.
.. maneuver ».ca
Mires in »•**'■
the same ob- On She Aisne, there was little
| c.iar.ge towards the western part of
i Additional Ground, the front where the Americans and
Vesle and the Aisne French are on the river, facing the
je
liii.Tiwn»
Between 'lle
where the American troops Germans entrenched along the cana".
Wiii the French, addi- which parallels the stream. Further
. :. t'aU portion of
• n IA are i:i the
hell eefore the big
: ; ■ March.
1 m Offering Siinu Resistance.
been gained by east the Germans are givine up
;.:;e, jsronnd.
T;,e British now are standing at in F!an.»ers the British made
,,,., .:x miles from St. Quen- some farther headway but found the
'■•'"hivir.- carried out an advance German resistance stiffening around
.aten mile from on the general LaBassee. The Germans apparently
r- or Epehy- Hasbecourt and Ver- do not intend to give up Armentier-
!i the greater es. in this sector, bi*t are reported
of the Havrincourl wood, one hurriedly fortifying the region de-
,;::...:'. strong points barring tending it.
,rai also has been Bu,Kes in Iiin? Xow naUen6d ()ut
UU6 be6-n-.„U'! Marshal Pochs succession of him-mering
blows along the German lines
tram Rheims to Arras sin:e July 18
have now well-nigh completely flat-tened
out the great bulges created
b; the German offensives of the
the Germans are sr-~-n? ana early summer.
... e m resistance :o further Further still the well co-ordinated
., British. Gradually progress o! his attack baa brought
Fres h are working their way h:ra to a poirfc where lie may well be
.- north of soissons able to strike a sii'.l more disastrous
in ue movement that aims at the blow to the German defensive sys-iaok
at ■ ;. i Fere and Laon and tem in the west.
iitions east of this What Gen. Forh's Plan May Involve.
legi ., Thej have reached the out- It appears that Marshal Foch's
skirts ol lage of Sevais on plan may prove to involve the turn-ii.'
northern edge of the forest and ing of the old Hindenburg line at
! :-J miles from La Fere while a Oambrai and Laon. In the north the
■ llstan ie nort'.i they have British have been for several days in
Meniiessis on the a position to deliver what might
easily prove a vital stroke to the
nils latter gain brings the French west of Cambrai, where they have
than eight miles halted at the ("anal du Nord and
8l Q nude no move toward driving home
Hard Fighting North of the Aisne. i the olow which the logic of the Sit-
X rth ol Visne, near Soissons, ' u4t,on points t0 as inevitable.
tomans are fighting hard to' In ,he south the armies of General
Petain have now fought their way to
positions where the left flank of the
line is under their guns and the
edges of the defensive positions are
beginning to feel the effect of the
i the Fren '■■ in check, realizing
- them of much more
:' - egion, in conjunc-
11» aver that is in
the St. Gobian for-
- entire German de- poundinS-i
toward Rheims
ion. Near Laffaux
•-Sur-Aisne the
■m have delivered s-lrong coun-
■• French every-
:?haTe maintained their ground.
'..' "u Reacting s,uth of Ypres.
- also are reacting
xhar so«th of Ypres, especially
• i'loegstreet, where
hreatening the re-ntieres.
Counter of-s
here and east of :-
»>■ |.
B broken up by "the
Da
niv„1(v luken I>ast Week.
""* the first week of Septem-
1 Marshal Haig'e forces
' taker m 19.000prison-
- ""n.bers of machine
M 1»antitle» of stores.
. * v '' ■ events are on the
French Already in Advance of 1917
Line.
On the western outskirts of the
Bastion of St. Gobain. defending
Laon, the French already at Barisis
are in advance of the line they occu-pied
in 1917 and further south be-low
the main bastion, are standing
on ground which had not been in al-lied
hands since 1914. Further north
they are before La Fere, whence an
eastward drive would carry them
north of the St. Gobain Massif.
French Drive Aimed at Massif.
The French drive seems clearly
aimed at this Massif, which, appar-ently
safe from capture by a frontal
attack, seams not unlikely to prove
the objective of an encircling move-ment.
This, however, may have to
await the further retirement of the
Germans northward from the Aisne,
to the east. Such a retirement is re-intente
allies, in the gardad as Inevitable because Of the
-'war is indicated allied position on me German left
Newton D. Baker, flank, from the Aisne at Conde to
it p.,." ""r,r> of war, again Vauxaillon and there are not want-var
conference. , ing military critics who argue that
the Germans here will not be per-mitted
to halt even at the Chemin-des-
Dames position but that the en-emy
will be forced to retreat still
further north, thus additionally ex-posing
Laon on the west.
'^"■"^ "KSHOITLD
IS HELD THERE.
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ii: ''•—Congress to-
111 arrangement
' Peruvian and
"^'s for the use of
s interned at Cal-
'■-
J ■ ■
.
C'allao were seiz-
".; in June, some of
- steamers with pas-
■
"filiations, formerly
Murderer Taken to Jail at Asheville.
Asheville, Sept. 6.—Dennis Love-lace,
of Rutherfordton county, ar-rested
on the charge of killing his i
father-in-law, H. E. Edwards, last
Monday, has been brought to Ashe-ville
and placed in the Buncombe
'.'■'- •••'' Francisco. South ' count>' J3-1 for saEe keeping. Sheriff .
lanjr. (.Tanner,, of Rutherford county, ef-'
,; off relations tectea tlle capture yesterday morning
October, 1917 the ' and immea*latel>' brought Lovelace |
save the presi- to Asheville. He will be held until
use the German' nIs Pre:iminarJ' trial on the charge
"" eesa of murder.
The French and Americans are
fast driving the Germans out of
their positions in southern Picardy
and in the sector between the Vesle
and Aisne rivers. So rapid has been
the progress of the allies—the
French in Picardy and the Ameri-cans
and French from" Soissons east-ward
toward Rheims—that the re-tirement
of the enemy has the ap-pearance
of the beginning almost of
a rout.
Still Tasting Defeat.
. Meanwhile Field Marshal Haig in
the north, from Peronne to Ypres,
has been almost as busily engaged
with his troops in carrying out suc-cessful
maneuvers which are only
in a slightly less degree of rapidity
forcing the Germans everywhere to
give ground. Haigs men again have
made the Germans taste bitter de-feat
on numerous sectors and the
end of the punishment for them
seems not yet in sight.
Thirty Towns Reclaimed.
In the latest fighting in the region
extending from the old Noyon sector
to Soissons the French have reclaim-ed
thirty villages from the Germans;
have crossed the Somme Canal at
several points and are standing only
a short distance from the important
junction of Ham with its roads lead-ing
to St. Quentin and La Fere. On
the south they have made further
crossings of the Ailette river and
are fast skirting the great wooded
region which acts as a barrier to di-rect
attack on Laon. the Chemin des
Dames, and the western Aisne in the
defense of the enemy. Seemingly at
the present rate of progress this bar-rier
shortly will nave been overcome
and. indeed, the entire salient north-west
of Soissons obliterated. Al-ready
the French south of Fresnes.
on the fringe of the high forest of
Coucy. have penetrated the old Hin-denburg
line.
Falling Back to Old Line.
All behind the lines northeast of
Xoyon great conflagrations are to be
seen, particularly around Jussy and
La Fere, which apparently indicates
that the Germans intend to fall back
as fast as they can to the old German
lines running southeastward from St
Quentin.
The French and Americans are
hard after the Germans between the
Vesle river and the Aisne and for
more than 8 miles, extending from
Conde to Vil-Arcy, they have driven
the enemy across the Aisne and are
standing on the southern bank of the
river. Eastward toward Rheims, al-most
up to the gates of the cathedral
city, the German line is falling back
northward. At the anchoir point of
the line in the vicinity of Rheims.
however, the Germans seem to be
nold'.ng evidently realizing that a re-tragrade
movement here would nec-essitate
a straightening of their line
perhaps as far eastward as Verdun.
Along Vesle Front.
In the initial maneuver to the re-treat
along the Vesle front the Amer-icans
and French captured both Baz-oches
and Fismette. From Bazoches
they moved six miles northward to
Vil-Arcy, while from Fismette they
have penetrated more than three
miles northward to Barbonval, which
is only a little more than a mile
south of the Aisne.
In T'liHidors.
In Flanders the British have taken
the town Ploegsteert and positions
southwest of Messines and northeast
of Wulverghem and repulsed strong
counter attacks launched against
them.
Southeast of Arras all the way
down the line to the south of the
Somme below Peronne, the British
have dug more deeply into the ene-my's
front on various sectors, espe-cially
toward Cambrai and immedi-ately
north and south of Peronne in
the latter region having driven in
the enemy's rear guards for consid-erable
distances.
Bombing Americans.
The Germans have been violently
bombing the Americans at Frapelle
on the eastern end of the battle front
in Lorraine, but have attempted no
infantry attacks. More than three
thousand shells, many of them gas
projectiles, have been sent into the
American lines by the enemy.
DBMOCRATS-REPUBLICANS
APPLAUD CLAUDE KITCHIN
WHES RE OFFERS GREAT TAXA-TnMMEASURE
TO HOUSE-FUTURE
COST LARGE.
Washington. Sept. 6.—Represen-tative
Claude Kitchin, chairman of
tne ways and means committee, was
given an ovation by the house today
when he walked to the foot of the
center aisle to begin debate on the
eight billion dollar revenue bill.
Both ptopublicans and Democrats
arose to their feet and applauded the
majority leader, who held in his
hand the greatest taxation measure
ever presented to a law-making body.
In return for this send-off the
North Carolina member, who is a
forceful orator, delivered a speech
replete with patriotism and contain-ing
several startling statements.
For instance, Mr. Kitchin predict-ed
that never again will it be possi-ble
for this government to operate
on less than approximately four bil-lion
dollars a year. It was not many
years ago that a hubbub was raised
when the appropriations of Congress
reached nearly a billion dollars and
Thomas B. Reed, then speaker of the
house, sagely observed: "This is-a
billion-dollar country."
Hereafter, according to Mr. Kitch-in's
forecast, it Is to be a four billion
dollar country.
The interest charge on the bonded
indebtedness of the nation alone will
amount to a billion a year. Mr.
Kitchin explained today. If the war
continues long, it will exceed by far
that amount.
Public Debt of Fort) Billion.
"Should the war not end next
year," said Mr. Kitchin. "we may ex-pect
a public debt of forty billion
dollars with correspondingly increas-ed
interest charges."
. Waving a copy of the revenue bill
in hij^jvfjnd.at thp cutset of his
speech. Mr. Kitcnin said:
"The president, commander-in-chief
of the army and navy, asked
for a revenue bill to raise eight bil-lion
dollars. Here it is."
Continuing. Representative Kitch-in
said in part:
"This bill raises twice as much an-nual
revenue as this or any other
nation ever attempted to produce. It
is more than three times the total
of bonds issued and taxes levied by
the federal government during the
Civil war and two and one-half bil-lion
dollars more than the total cost
of the Civil war. I firmly believe
that under the provisions of the bill
we can raise the full amount with-out
ruining a single business or em-barrassing
a single individual."
"I believe we have prepared a bill
which will be supported by the
treasury department and the admin-istration,"
continued Mr. Kitchin.
"and I believe these taxes, enormous
as they are. will be paid cheerfully
by the loyal citizens of this country.
They know that these taxes are be-ing
paid in order to support our
brave soldiers now fighting on the
bloody fields of France. I believe
the achievements of the American
soldiers will forever challenge the
admiration of mankind and will
make the century ring with the glory
of our nation.
Nearly $20,000,000,000 in Bonds.
"We will have issued in the near
future about $26,000,000,000 of
bonds, and on these there will be a
fixed interest tuarge of about $1
105,000,000 every year. If we had
not passed the bill increasing our
revenues, we would have had to raise
more than $30,000,000,000 in bonds,
with a fixed interest charge greatly
increased.
"We know that after the war
there must come a time of falling
prices. It has come after every war
in history. Profits and incomes,
which now bear the great burden of
these taxes, will be greatly reduced.
Business men should be willing now.
with the greatly increased profits
and incomes, to pay more in taxes,
and thus relieve themselves and fu-ture
generations from these heavy
interest charges.
"Should the war not end next year
we may expect a public deft of $40.-
000.000.000. with correspondingly
increased fixed interest charges. The
cost of pensions and insurance will
be more than $1,000,000,000 annual-ly,
and other expenses will be in-creased.
Would it not be almost a
crime against our own government
if we should issue more bonds and
less taxes? Let us not fasten these
BRITISH AND AUSTRALIANS
STILL PUSHING FORWARE
VAST QUANTITIES OF WAR MA-TERIALS
BURNED AS THE
GERMANS RETREAT.
With the British Army in France.
Sept. 6.—Substantial advances again
are reported all along the southern
part of the line. The Australians
have crossed the Somme on a wide
front south of Peronne and after
overcoming heavy opposition have
driven into the territory the enemy
was holding. St Chris:. Brie, Le
Mesnil, Doignt and Athies wood all
nave been taken and progress is re-ported
east of these places.
Many Explosions, Many Villages
Aflame.
The enemy also has been driven
back from east and northeast of Pe-ronne.
Over the whole area of the
Germans retreat on this lage section
many fires are raging and numerous
explosions have been heard. Whole
villages are aflame between the
points to which the British have
reached and the Hindenburg line.
Here and in the northern area6 the
Germans are burning vast quantities
of war materials which they could
not save, as the British are pushing
them too hard.
The British have reached the
Athies-Ham road and are on the
eastern outskirts of Bussu. At Xur-iu
strong German forces, fighting
desperately with machine guns and
trench mortars, have caused the
British to pause for the moment.
Enemy Efforts to Save Their Big
iiuns.
Along the whole front from the
southern extremity to the Bapaume-
Cambrai road the enemy artillery
fire gradually is dwindling away, in-dicating
that the Germans are mak-ing
strenuous efforts to get their
guns back of the Hindenburg de-fenses.
In the Queant area the "British
after sharp fighting, occupied the
ridge south of Moeuvres and captur-ed
more German posts around Hav-rincourt
wood. South of this wood
the advance north and south of
Equancourt met with heavy resist-ance.
Just east of ..ere the whole
town of Fins is aflame.
British pests west of the Canal
Dunord, north of Inchy, have been
pushed forward, but patrols on the
west bank were heavily fired upon
from the east bank. One British pa-trol
crawled across a damaged bridge
and came upon an enemy outpost
asleep. It captured three of them.
More Fires Raging in the North.
In the north, where British ad-vances
are reported more fires are
raging. In many places north of the
Sensee river the Germans for several
hours have been firing thousands of
gas shells. Indiscriminately as
though they are trying to get rid of
them.
A number of fires have been re-ported
south of Estaires-Armentieres
road. There have been three coun-ter-
attacks against Hill 63 and the
surrounding positions. Two broke
down completely but the third, north
of the hill, compelled the British to
fall back slightly.
Piece After Piece of Ground Reclaim-ed.
Further north the British reached
the crest of the important ridge
northwest of Wulverghem, but were
unable to go further for a time be-cause
of heavy enemy machine gun
and trench mortar fire.
Still further north piece after
piece of ground is being regained.
The British have reached Canteleux
and are pushing on toward Violaines.
Weak enemy counter attacks south
of Ploegsteert were easily smother-ed.
Drafted Man Killed.
Spartanburg, S. C, Sept. 6.—Jos-eph
A. Merale, a drafted man from
Brooklyn. H. Y.. died at Spartanburg
Wednesday afternoon as the result
of a blow on the head at Blacksburg,
received as he rode past a water-pipe
on the steps of a coach. His
skull was crushed.
financial burdens on future genera-tions.
"I would feel like a miserable
coward if I put a single dollar up to
my children to pay to meet the cost
of this war, if I could pay it myself.
I refuse to display the lack of man-hood
involved in leaving for those to
come the burden of paying for what
I ought to pay myself."
EIGHTEEN GERMANS AT
HOT SPRINGS ARE DEAD
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVETTY*
SEVEN CASES OF TYPHOID A*
INTERMENT CAMP.
Washington. Sept. 6 —A state-men
that 18 Germans interned at
HorSprings. N. C. have died as tl*e
result of typhoid fever epidemic In
the enemy alien camp was author'
ized tonight by the war department.
.--- department says there have
been in all 177 cases of typhoid since
the outbreak of the disease early n
August.
The official statement of ths war
department tonight confirms previ-ous
dispatcies and reads as fOtUHTe!
Due to the lack of proper water
facilities, typhoid fever broke out at
the alien enemy Internment camp at
Hot Springs. N. C, early in August.
Out of the 177 cases. 18 have died.
All the patients have been removed
to army general hospital No. 12 at
Biltmore, N. C. All remaining pris-oners
have bee removed to the in-ternment
camp M Fort Oglethorpe.
First Renon August 4.
"The Hot Springs camp was turn-ed
over to the army on July 1 for
the purpose of transfering all prison-ers
to the prison camp at Fort Ogle-thorpe
This camp was instituted by
the department of labor and its oc-cupants
were mostly ueamen rcaac-ed
from interned German ships
which were seized at the outbreak of
the war.
"The first rerorfof typhoid at the
camp was received in a telegram
from the camp surgeon to the sur-geon
general's office on August 4.
Nine cases and 36 suspected ca-see
and one death were reported. Sur-geon
General Gorgas .sent an inspec-tor
to the camp and a thorough in-vestigation,
of the sanitary and water
facilities was begun August 7.
"The inspector found that the in-ternment
station had been d4vided
into two camps A and B There were .
1.000 prisoners in camp A and 1,127
in camp B. AH the cases developed
from camp B.
"The entire camp received ita
main water supply from the city of
Hot Springs. The source of this sup-ply
being mountain springs. The
quality of the water is good, but ow-ing
to the fact that the camp had
been overcrowded, it had been neces-sary
to augment the water supply by
the construction of .service v .3 in
camp B. These oervice we!'.= wort
intended to care far the toilets and
baths in this part of the camp. The
prisoners had bean .instructed no! to
make use of this water for anything
except bathing purposes and flush-ing
toilets. As a further safeguard
a chlorine apparatus was installed
to purify the water.
Hospital l':i«-ilii-:<•- Primitive.
"The inspector from the medical
department found these wells to be
shallow, the tests proved that the
water was contaminated. His inves-tigations
showed that the facilities
for caring for the sick were ''primi- /
tive" and he recommended 'hat all
the sick be transferred to the army
general hospital at Biltmore. Pend-ing
the removal of the men to the
hospital at Biltmore, hospital facili-ties
were borrow tj from the general
hospital.
"Following the recommendation
of the inspector, the prisoners were
inoculated against typhoid fever. The
camp surgeon was directed to in-crease
the amount of chlorine added
to the water from .3 of a part per '
1.000,000, to at least .4 parts per
1,000,000.
"The overcrowding of the camp
had curtailed the efficiency of the
sanitary arrangements originally
provided for the health of the pris-oners.
The old Hot Spings hotel,
with a capacity of 500 was used to
house a great many of the prisoners
in camp. Birracks in camp A ac-commodated
the remainder in this
section. In camp B, the barracks
were found to be about 100 per cent
over-crowded. He also found that
owing to. the vast amount of clotb,
ing and baggage housed in the can-tonments,
the ventilation in the bar-racks
was very poor. The general
rules of sanitation hid been fol-lowed."
Horn Italian Troops Landed.
Washington. Sept. 6.—An official
cablegram from Rome today etfttM
that "another Italian transport, car-rying
Italian contingents for opera-tions
in Russia, arrived safely."